New Delhi, May 26 -- Earlier this month, multinational corporation and technology conglomerate Microsoft laid off 6,000 employees, about 3% of its workforce, in a move to streamline and optimise its functions. While the decision must have hit many, it wasn't unexpected. In April, Satya Nadella, the chief executive officer of Microsoft, had announced that the global behemoth now relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to write as much as 30% of codes in some of its projects. It seemed like a preamble to the drastic measures taken a month later.

Ironically, among those affected by the layoffs was Gabriela de Queiroz, the director of AI at the company, who took the blow on the chin with grace.

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